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IMEX Database Categories of Plants

The list contains the following categories of plants:

  • Abattoirs (meat)
  • Cutting plants (meat)
  • Processing plants (meat and poultry meat)
  • Cooling or refrigeration plants (meat and poultry meat)
  • Poultry abattoirs
  • Poultry meat cutting plants
  • Abattoirs and cutting plants for domestic rabbits
  • Production plants for minced meat and meat preparations (meat and poultry meat)
  • Game processing plants
  • Plants for milk and dairy products
  • Plants for egg products
  • Plants for fishery products and live mussels, factory ships
  • Fat rendering and skin processing plants (are authorised and recorded as processing plants but are also entered separately in a special "skin list")
  • Repacking plants (meat and poultry meat)
  • Gelatine plants

The following details for each plant include

  • veterinary control or other identity number,
  • Land (e.g. Bavaria or Brandenburg) where the plant is based,
  • place of business,
  • name of the plant,
  • details about authorisation restrictions (e.g. only authorised for the slaughter of pigs) or addenda (e.g. "also authorised for poultry meat preparations", "also authorised for exports to Japan"),
  • any special provisions (e.g. "authorisation suspended")

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